The University of Idaho - Groundwater Field Laboratory Moscow, Idaho

The Groundwater Field Laboratory is a unique teaching/research laboratory on the UI campus for the study of ground water resources and hydrogeology.  The site includes 11 wells (80 to 200 feet deep) with red casings in fractured basalt, and 9 shallow wells (<20 feet deep) in sediments above the basalt.  There also are 8 hydrogeophysics test holes in fractured basalt plus several piezometers, a core hole, and a perennial creek hydraulically connected with the upper aquifer within about 2 acres on the west side of the UI campus.

Looking east toward campus.

Former grad student Alyssa Douglas measuring a water level (looking east).

Alyssa Douglas measuring a water level (looking southeast).

The UI Ground Water Field Laboratory currently used as a teaching laboratory for Geol 410 and grad student research (looking west).

The UI Ground Water Field Laboratory (looking west).